“I’ve traveled a lot, as most artists do, and I’ve developed this weird relationship with each city I’ve visited,” he said. “They become like friends, and I want to record them.”
As far as his obsession with drawing goes, he’s at ease with it.
“It started pretty early with me,” he said. “As a creative, it’s a way to organize my environment. It’s part of how I see things.”
He talks of how he finds it almost impossible to put his pen down at times, even at restaurants Hancock scribbles away on napkins or whatever he can find to doodle on. Hancock says he often finds discarded sketches from lunches, framed and on friends' walls, funnily enough.
Either way James has a long way to go, he's unsure if he will be able to literally draw each and every building in New York, but he is willing to try.
You can follow his illustrative journey through New York by checking out his blog:
Prices starting at $30 for an 8.5" by 11" sized print, ranging through to $90 for a 17 by 22" print.
Love,
Danielle x
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